Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 394-016
Date: Monday, January 8, 1973 at 3:04 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.
Recording device: Old Executive Office Building
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/394-016

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[0:00] Yeah.
[0:02] Hi, Steve.
[0:06] Setting up things tomorrow that you could, uh, that don't interfere with.
[0:22] I'd like to get George Schultz in and, uh, kind of, uh, with, uh, John Hurt on things, right?
[0:27] Uh, and then, uh, I want things to go down.
[0:28] So, uh, I'd like to have, uh, uh, just this, uh, can of Coke, uh,
[0:31] They don't listen to this.
[0:45] I don't know.
[0:55] I don't know.
[0:55] I don't know.
[0:56] Yeah.
[1:00] Yeah.
[1:01] Okay.
[1:33] That's the one.
[1:52] Yeah.
[2:02] Yeah.
[2:07] Yes, I have got her.
[2:15] Well, my name is Jeff.
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[2:37] And then, uh, uh,
[3:05] Then I want him to go up to me and say this 12 o'clock in the morning.
[3:28] Then I'll join him in the afternoon for another meeting.
[3:30] After that, I'm all set.
[3:30] I'm all set.
[3:31] I just want to go up to a couple of other people.
[3:33] Let's get to the meeting.
[3:36] Check it out.
[3:41] I don't want any opposite numbers on our side.
[4:01] I don't want any other opposite numbers on our side.
[4:03] Unless...
[4:03] If he's here...
[4:04] You know what I mean?
[4:11] Well, you know, I have plenty of very, very good, but I have changed that whole thing on any mistake.
[4:27] We have one good one, and now we have to have Americans there.
[4:29] Go on.
[4:29] Go on.
[4:29] Go on.
[4:29] Go on.
[4:30] Go on.
[4:30] Go on.
[4:32] We don't want to break the circuit.
[4:45] We don't want to break the circuit.
[4:48] We don't want to break the circuit.
[4:50] We don't want to break the circuit.
[4:54] We don't want to break the circuit.
[4:56] We don't want to break the circuit.
[4:57] We don't want to break the circuit.
[5:00] We don't want to break the circuit.
[5:01] But then on our side, you know, I don't want to, you know, whether I get a, I don't want to have a, you know, no, there's only, there's only one second left.
[5:27] If he breaks, if he has to, if he breaks him up there, I don't like that.
[5:29] I don't have to break him.
[5:29] I don't have to, you know, you know, see him.
[5:31] I'd like to do it the second day.
[5:44] Now, if they just work out, and they're anxious to earn it, and they can't do it the first day, they'll have to do it the second day.
[5:56] And I think it's a better time to say, don't do it the eighth day, don't do it the fourth day.
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